Rubber Trees

Savi, Franklin, Vijay and I, visited Jobi's house where he is growing rubber tree plants. Jobi said he had about 100 trees. It seems most people in rural areas are growing rubber trees because the return on investment is higher than other products.

Here is the area around Jobi's house.

 

Rubber trees are everywhere. Including other peoples property.

 

There was a great sound coming from some insects that live in the trees. I was told they were something like a cricket.

Click here to listen to the sounds in the rubber tree plantation.

 

There are not just Rubber trees planted in the area, but pineapple also.

 

It was a great day, and we hand some nice scenery as Jobi's place was toward the rural hilly areas, and there is a lot of farming going on. Here is a large rice field we passed.

 

We did some other things on this trip like visit the Hill Palace which I blogged about earlier, and we also went to Jobi's sister engagement party which I will blog about in coming posts.

The drive back was interesting, and I tried to get some video of it. You will notice we are on a motorcycle. If you exclude transportation vehicles, I think 75% of the transportation is via motorcyle.

Click here to view the video going home.

 

Click here to see all the pics.

 

Links on Rubber Trees:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_tree

http://www.jplatex.com/concept.htm

http://www.dfsc.dk/Extensionstudy/EXT-1112.htm

http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/AD221E/AD221E00.HTM